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From: kenchiu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kenneth Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.tech vote ABOUT TO FAIL!
Message-ID: <2304@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 2 Apr 88 06:19:54 GMT
References: <8804020242.AA24241@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: kenchiu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kenneth Chiu)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <8804020242.AA24241@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	I can think of two good reasons why so many people are changing their
>	votes...  so far, just about everything on comp.sys.amiga.tech is 
>	cross posted from comp.sys.amiga .  I think it has already reached the
>	point of no return (due to people blindly doing a reply from
>	rn without editing the newsgroups it goes to).

I disagree, surely we readers, and especially posters can change this.
After all, new threads are started, and people can make the effort
to decide which *one* group to post the article in.

Note that you used the past tense (or some form of the past tense,
been a long time since English) for both of your reasons.  If valid, they
seem largely due to the fact that .tech was born "illegitimately," thus
creating much of the cross-posting and confusion.  (No blame ascribed to
Bob Page here.)  People (myself included) wanted cross-posting because we
couldn't get .tech.  That seems a legitimate reason.  Also, many .tech-type
articles were posted to .amiga simply because .tech didn't officially
exist for them.  So the conditions you believe are causing the "no" votes
would not have existed if .tech hadn't been born prematurely.

Anyway, perhaps the powers that be would permit an extension, since
there seems to be either a misunderstanding or something stranger
going on.  The purpose and purity of .tech, once it exists officially,
needs to be emphasized.  (Assuming your reasons are the real ones.)

Ken Chiu